reelect

See also: reëlect and re-elect

English

Alternative forms

• re-elect
• reëlect (dated)

Etymology

From re- +‎ elect.

Pronunciation

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Verb

reelect (third-person singular simple present reelects, present participle reelecting, simple past and past participle reelected)

1. To elect for a second or subsequent time.
   • 2025 May 14, “Omaha poised to have first Black leader after mayor concedes race”, in CNN‎, sourced from Associated Press:

     Voters in Omaha were set to make history Tuesday by either reelecting the city’s first female mayor to a rare fourth term or electing the community’s first Black mayor.

Related terms

• reelection

Translations

to elect for a subsequent time

Bulgarian: преизбирам (preizbiram) Catalan: reelegir (ca), reescollir Chinese: Mandarin: 再選 / 再选 (zh) (zàixuǎn), 改選 / 改选 (zh) (gǎixuǎn) Danish: genvælge Esperanto: reelekti Finnish: valita uudelleen French: réélire (fr) German: wiederwählen (de) Hungarian: újraválaszt (hu) Japanese: 再選する (ja) (さいせんする, zaisen suru), 改選する (ja) (かいせんする, kaisen suru) Korean: 재선하다 (jaeseonhada) Latin: reēligō Manx: aaheiy Norwegian: gjenvelge Portuguese: reeleger (pt) Russian: переизбира́ть (ru) impf (pereizbirátʹ), переизбра́ть (ru) pf (pereizbrátʹ) Spanish: reelegir (es), reesleer, reesleír Swedish: omvälja (sv), återvälja Ukrainian: переобира́ти impf (pereobyráty), переобра́ти pf (pereobráty) Vietnamese: tái cử (vi), tái bầu, tái bầu cử

Anagrams

• electer, electre